Considered the first book to really portray America’s lower class and displays the violence and anger pertaining to being part of America’s forgotten people.
Told in six parts the novel tells stories about different individuals and their life in a New York slum. Controversial upon its released Last Exit to Brooklyn was banned in Italy and part of a obscenity trial in the United Kingdom due to its realistic portrait of drug use, street violence, gang rape, homosexuality, transvestism and domestic violence in modern day society.
Written with that real stream of conciseness style of writing that was influenced by and influenced a abundance of writers and a high use of natural slang make it easy to read give more truth to the depiction. Time has not hurt this novel as it has become a transgressive fiction fan must have.
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